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A Jailbroken PS5 Got Turned Into a Local AI Server That Can Run A 27B LLM, Smaller Models Can Reach Impressive Speeds Of 124 Tok/s, But There Are Limitations

A Sony PlayStation 5 console stands against a background featuring digital circuit patterns and binary code.

The PS5’s 16GB GDDR6 memory pool and 448GB/s bandwidth are decent specifications for running a local AI model, and it appears that someone has actually attempted this daring experiment, albeit with a bunch of compromises. With the trick being to move the work from the CPU to the GPU, one user managed to free up ample memory and successfully ran Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter LLM. The project titled “PS5LM” leveraged the CPU as a payload but limited the available memory to just 6GB; an optimized port raised that RAM to 11.4GB To jumpstart the experiment, the Redditor u/metover introduced an unofficial llama.cpp […]

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